Dismissed¶23
Gyatri Devi v. The State of Bihar
Patna HCCR. APP (SJ)/5391/2024
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Condonation of delay of 359 days in filing Memo of Appeal refused; Section 14A(3) second proviso, SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — maximum 180 days condonable; Criminal Appeal (SJ) No.5391 of 2024 arising out of PS Case No. 121 of 2023, East Champaran Complaint; appellant Gyatri Devi versus State of Bihar and eight others; I.A. No. 01 of 2025 and memo of appeal both dismissed; single-judge order of Justice Nawneet Kumar Pandey dated 23-04-2025.
What did the court decide?
Per the second proviso of sub-section (3) of Section 14A of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, only a delay of maximum 180 days in preferring the memo of appeal is condonable. ¶22